Why do so many of us need drugs to make it through the day? What is wrong with us?In August 2017 a car ploughed into a crowd of peaceful marchers. For P.E.
Moskowitz it was a shattering near-death experience, followed by a nervous breakdown. As they willed themselves back to life using a variety of drugs, both prescription and illegal, they started to wonder: why do we need drugs to quell the pain of modern life?In Breaking Awake, Moskowitz takes us on a kaleidoscopic voyage through the twenty-first century's mental health crisis and the drugs we take - from fentanyl to SSRIs, from ketamine to LSD and beyond - to cope with the gnawing bleakness of our present moment.
We meet a team handing out free heroin on the streets of Vancouver and a young mother in Chicago who has been on SSRIs since childhood, ravers in Brooklyn taking drugs to push the limits of human consciousness and ordinary people leading ordinary lives on a constant cocktail of medication.Moskowitz asks: do drugs spark liberation or simply numb our modern malaise? Breaking Awake explores the global mental health and drug use crises whilst searching for answers to find a path to healing.
| ISBN: | 9781526658081 |
| Publication date: | 2nd September 2025 |
| Author: | P E Moskowitz |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 352 pages |
| Genres: |
Memoirs Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences |
Why do so many of us need drugs to make it through the day? What is wrong with us?In August 2017 a car ploughed into a crowd of peaceful marchers.
Breaking Awake features in the following genres: Memoirs, Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences
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Breaking Awake was written by P E Moskowitz and published by Bloomsbury an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Breaking Awake has 352 pages